Ok Verizon has been driving me crazy by pushing OTA updates to my phone. After dealing with "Install later" for 3 weeks, I finally managed to disable OTA updates using a trick I found on a forum. First, make sure you have adb installed & that it can ...
This one really drove me insane. I recently discovered JavaScript MooTools library & it's UI component, MochaUI. MochaUI provides a powerful & easy-to-use library for developing rich internet applications (RIAs). My issue began after finding that the...
A client recently struggled when his XP workstation's left pane disappeared. This pane contains commons tasks such as emailing files. A simple registry modficiaton was needed to remediate the issue: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEYCURRENTUS...
Tired of trying to use compiz to have wallpaper span both screens, only to find your desktop icons disappear? A few months ago I embarked on a relentless search through mountains of RGBA patches, custom versions of nautilus, and failed attempts at al...
I recently got back into trying to teach myself C++, mostly through YouTube tutorials (this guy's are pretty good). I only went to IRC for an answer at one point, but would like to share something I found & wasn't able to Google on. Everyone should k...
As a network tech, I should always follow the golden rule of backup up data. I recently attempted resizing a partition (after neglecting this pinnacle of IT) & completed destroyed a PHP web application I had been working on. The PHP web application w...
When booting a VM recently, I received the error message below regarding I/O writecaching & virtual hard disk corruption: After Googling for a bit, I found that the first thing to check with this error is whether I/O write caching is enabled on the V...
If you're getting frustrated by Outlook 2007 clients receiving error 0x80070422 when trying to Send/Receive the Offline Address Book, the first thing to check is your Exchange 2007 service URL's. The quickest way to test this from the client end woul...
Just had an issue where I could not mount my USB drive at boot time I was getting an error along the lines of UUID=blah not found...I previously had performed the standard sudo blkid and received the following output: > [corte@ashbox ]$ sudo blkid > ...
Had some trouble with something I'd had earlier trouble with in the past. When using the locate command (even after running updatedb), I was unable to search my removable USB drives. The solution was to modify the /etc/updatedb.conf file, and remove ...
